Limitations of four-slice multirow detector computed tomography in the detection of coronary stenosis

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-131

  Martuscelli, Euginio ^a,b   Razzini, Cinzia ^a   D'Eliseo, Alessia ^a   Marchei, Massimo ^a   Pisani, Eliana ^a   Romeo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4644234432     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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